Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world,[2] with over 16,858 stores in 50 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1000 in Canada, and over 700 in the UK. [3][1] Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, coffee beans, salads, hot and cold sandwiches and panini, pastries, snacks, and items such as mugs and tumblers.
Doutor Coffee is a Japanese company that specializes in coffee roasting and coffee shop franchising. It was founded by Toriba Hiromichi. Its first store was opened in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in 1980. The company currently has over 900 locations in Japan, has begun expansion in Taiwan and Korea. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Tchibo is a German chain of coffee shops and cafes, also known for its weekly-changing range of other products.
The latter includes: clothing, household items, electronics and electrical appliances.In Germany, Tchibo's slogan is "Every week a new world" (German: Jede Woche eine neue Welt); its UK slogan is "Add a little O to your life". Recently Tchibo expanded its product range, and is now selling services such as travel and insurance. With over 1000 shops, Tchibo is one of Germany's biggest shop chains.
The company is based in Hamburg. Tchibo's coffee is sold in supermarkets in United States, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan, Russia and Poland. On the Isle of Man in the UK Shoprite sells its coffee as well as clothing, household items, electronics and electrical appliancesDunkin' Donuts is an international donut and coffee retailer founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts by William Rosenberg. It is now headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts. Despite originally focusing on donuts and other baked goods, over half of Dunkin' Donuts business today is in coffee, making it more of a competitor to Starbucks as opposed to traditional competitors Krispy Kreme and Tim Hortons. McCafe is a coffee-house-style food and drink chain, owned by McDonald's.
Created and launched in Melbourne, Australia in 1993 by McDonald's Licensee Ann Brown,[1] the chain reflects a consumer trend towards espresso coffees. 2] Reports indicated that McCafe outlets generated 15% more revenue than a regular McDonalds[3] and, by 2003, were the largest coffee shop brand in Australia and New Zealand. [4] The Luigi Lavazza S. p. A.
is an Italian manufacturer of coffee products. Founded in Turin in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, it was initially run from a small grocery store at Via San Tommaso 10. The business of Lavazza S. p.
A. is currently administered by the third and fourth generation of the Lavazza family Nespresso is the brand name of Nestle Nespresso S.A. , an operating unit of the Nestle Group based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nespresso machines brew espresso from special capsules containing ground coffee. Nestle S. A. is the largest consumer packaged goods company in the world, founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Nestle originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, which was established in 1866 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and the Farine Lactee Henri Nestle Company, which was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestle.The company grew significantly during the First World War and following the Second World War, eventually expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products.
Today, the company operates in 86 countries around the world and employs nearly 283,000 people. Costa Coffee is a coffee house company based in the United Kingdom founded in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. Diedrich Coffee is a coffee company based in Irvine, CA.Its first coffee house in Orange County, CA was opened in 1983. It owns the American mall-based stores for Gloria Jean's Coffees.
In Oregon, it previously ran Coffee People until nearly every location was bought and closed or converted into a Starbucks (Diedrich retained ownership of the Coffee People locations inside the Portland Airport. ) Second Cup is Canada’s largest specialty coffee retailer, operating more than 360 cafes across Canada. [1] Founded in 1975 by Tom Culligan and Frank O'Dea, Culligan eventually purchased O'Dea's shares. After building it to a 150-store chain, he sold it in 1988 to Michael Bregman.The Coffee Bean ; Tea Leaf (sometimes shortened to simply "The Coffee Bean" or "Coffee Bean") is a Los Angeles, California-based coffee chain, owned and operated by International Coffee ; Tea, LLC.
The first Coffee Bean opened in September 1963. The chain has over 750 locations in 22 countries. [citation needed] Within the United States, The Coffee Bean has locations in San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Texas, and Detroit. The majority of locations are in Southern California, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura.Many locations outside of California are franchises, such as Hawaii. Singaporean entrepreneur Victor Sassoon has opened locations throughout Southeast Asia.
Maxwell House is a brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Foods. Introduced in 1892, it is named in honor of the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. For many years until the late 1980s it was the largest-selling coffee in the U. S. and is currently (ca. 2007) second behind Folgers, which is manufactured by The J.
M. Smucker Co. The company recently unveiled a new slogan, "Good Just Got Great," visible on their website.However, it is best known for its longtime slogan, "Good to the last drop," and is still running ads featuring the line. UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. , Ltd.
is a manufacturer of coffee and tea products in Kobe, Hyogo. "UCC" stands for "Ueshima Coffee Company". Note that the official English corporate name is fully capitalized: UCC UESHIMA COFFEE CO. , LTD. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee or Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is a classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
The best lots of Blue Mountain coffee are noted for their mild flavour and lack of bitterness. Over the last several decades, this coffee has developed a reputation that has made it one of the most expensive and sought-after coffees in the world; over 80% of all Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is exported to Japan. [1] In addition to its use for brewed coffee, the beans are the flavor base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark, meaning only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such.It comes from a recognised growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica, and its cultivation is monitored by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica. The Blue Mountains are generally located between Kingston to the south and Port Antonio to the north.
Rising to 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), they are some of the highest mountains in the Caribbean. The climate of the region is cool and misty with high rainfall. The soil is rich, with excellent drainage. This combination of climate and soil is considered ideal for coffee.
